Hammock days are here again
This is what you do when the weather gets nice: You drop the preschooler at Ikea’s Småland (you know, for kids!), revel in the comparitive ease of shopping with just a tiny, containable, mute infant, and buy some patio furniture. Haul both kids and acacia wood seating home, set up shop, and start taking all your meals in the backyard.
Then you hang up the hammock, climb inside with your family, and start taking all your naps in the backyard.
Soon you will probably just dig a hole behind the compost and take EVERYthing in the backyard, knamean?
This week we have begun work on the “green room,” the room at the back of the house that gets gorgeous morning light
yet is by all other times of day cluttered and ugly as a warthog. We started priming and have picked out a paint color (Martha Stewart’s “Newsprint”, by Valspar, as reimagined by a cheaper and closer paint dealer). Soon we will decide on some sort of laminate-wood flooring and then, oh frabjous day, we will tear up (and stomp on! and dance around) the stained, dirty, ugly green carpeting and put some new flooring in.
In the meantime, the weather’s great and the backyard has never felt more hospitable.
I’m sure the children would agree.
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People who live in places that already have such green grass and can wear short sleeves only and not freeze are evil.
Or so I’ve heard. From someone who’s really, envious. Oh wait, that was me.
Aren’t you glad to have a house with a yard, despite all the yardwork? A hammock makes it totally worth it for me.
Oh, and we just got that Ikea igloo tent. C loves it!
I had no idea Ikea had such cute patio furniture. Must. Plan. Trip.
Oh, how nice! We just spent a load at Ikea last weekend on a bunkbed, barstools, nightstands and various other things that caught my eye. I was grueling with the 5 of us, but so worth it! If it would have fit in the car with all of us, I would have bought patio furniture too. You know, for when my yard is more than piles of dirt and rocks and large puddles of water.
And the green room? Is going to look great. You and Ian have great skills at home remodeling/decorating. I can’t wait to see it!
Aw, you caught yerself some youngins, so cute!
Wait, but what will you call it when it’s no longer green?
Owen asked me this same question. I asked him what he thought we should do and he said we should call it “Norgle.”
Norgle? Excellent idea.
Sigh. I wish I had the decorating skillz. Sadly, I have old lady curtains because I have odd-sized windows and am waiting to purchase new ones. Even more sad(ly) is the fact that my husband KNOCKED OFF HIS PASSENGER mirror this morning while exiting the garage, thereby eating up this month’s designated curtain/paint money.
Someone’s not getting clean underwear for WEEKS. I swear.
That green carpet is like astro turf. Grass inside on a rainy day! (What will you tell the kids?)
The carpet is almost the same texture as astro turf, too!
oh, Hippie. Ouch.